Convergence: From Desktop to Web to Mobile

There are all kinds of applications today, in all possible forms: on the desktop, on the Web, on your mobile, on your coffee machine, etc. So how can you make the jump from one platform to another?
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There are all kinds of applications today, in all possible forms: on the desktop, on the Web, on your mobile, on your coffee machine, etc. So how can you make the jump from one platform to another? How can Qt help you? More importantly, how is Qt helping you reduce your costs, increase your productivity, if/when you have to make that jump?

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From Desktop to Web to Mobile
Thiago Macieira 13/11/09
How Qt helps you go everywhere

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Who am I?
• Senior Product Manager at Nokia, Qt
• Degrees in Engineering and an MBA
• Almost 3 years with the company
• Focus on the Core & Infrastructure domains
• Other or past duties:
– Developer in the Core Team
– Working mostly with networking, I/O, threads
– Liaison to the KDE community
– Release manager for Qt
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What is convergence?
• “Technological convergence is the tendency for
different technological systems to evolve towards
performing similar tasks.”
– Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_convergence
• The lines of separation blur:
– Different devices do the same jobs
– Consumers start expecting the same behaviour
• Example:
– Web browsing
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